I am currently a lab manager in the Josephs’ lab at Michigan State University studying Capsella bursa-pastoris. Before then I was with the Echinacea Project studying habitat fragmentation of the tallgrass prarie.
Capsella bursa-pastoris Echinacea angustifolia

I completed my BA at The College of Wooster. I completed my senior thesis with Dr. Jennifer L Ison studying spatial genetic structure of Erythrina flabelliformis a hummingbird-pollinated desert perennial.

Research interests:

I am broadly interested in how plants sense and respond to their environment. I mainly have been coming at this from a pollination biology direction. I find the way that plant and their pollinators can both manipulate traits in each other fascinating.

Mia contemplates life while in a prairie remnant Mia contemplates life while in a prairie remnant